5 Questions
What is the distribution of results for a random walk, where each step can have possible values +1 and -1?
Normal Distribution
What does the Central Limit Theorem state about the distribution of the sum of a large number of random variables?
It tends towards a Normal Distribution
What is the Central Limit Theorem used as rationale for in the context of errors?
Modeling the distribution of measurement errors
What is the estimate of the mean from a sample in the context of the Normal Distribution?
Sample Mean
What Python function is useful for simulating a Random Walk?
numpy.random.choice
Test your knowledge of the normal distribution of errors in computational physics with this quiz. Explore the motivation for using the normal distribution as a model for errors, estimation of the mean from a sample, theory, simulation, useful Python functions, and its relationship to random walk.
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